5-20-22 SHORT HILLS: We’ve had more rain, 0.75 inches with the last storm. Everything is well watered—I hope it continues to rain. This is probably peak time for flowering, azaleas still out, rhododendrons out, still have double-file viburnums and dogwood, and peonies starting.
The pruning tools are put away for now, because we are off to VT for our May visit and the holiday.
The birds have been very active at the feeders, but will drain them while we are away and then have to forage.
New blooms: chokecherry, mulberry, wild cherry, Kousa dogwood, star-of-David.
Another pic of the Itoh peony flower, fully open.
Here's the whole plant, a dozen buds yet to bloom.
Carolina all spice always makes me think of a wood carving of a flower.
Bridal-wreath spirea. This is what happens if it gets sun. I have others, in shade, that are struggling to survive.
Chokecherry blooms a week of so after the white spirea, the foliage turns orange in the fall.
Wild cherry, a flower you have to look for, not like the drama of Kwanzan or Yoshino cherry flowers, but this tree makes fruit that the birds will eat.
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